Pedagogical lurking: Student engagement in non-posting discussion behavior

Applying Best Practice Online Learning, Teaching, and Support to Intensive Online Environments: An Integrative Review

“…As well as understanding and promoting the factors that can enhance belonging in an online community, faculty also have a responsibility to monitor student progress and address any early signs of difficulty or disengagement (Beaudoin, 2002;Dennen, 2008).…”

Case for ‘Passive’ Learning – the ‘Silent’ Community of Online Learners

“…Dennen (2008) reports on how vicarious learning may take place as one student sees another engaged in a learning dialogue. This approach may actually be ideal for learners who are grappling with a new topic because it lowers their cognitive and emotional load, taking the pressure off them to perform or articulate and instead allowing them to focus on the content itself.…”

Teachers’ motives for learning in networks: costs, rewards and community interest

“…However, so-called lurkers, or in a more positive tone 'listeners' (Wise, Hausknecht, and Zhao 2014), may still be legitimate participants who learn by seeing others engaged in dialogue or by studying contributed materials (Dennen 2008). Studies adopting a more qualitative approach to the costs and rewards balance focus on the experienced quality and the psychological notion of reciprocity (cf.…”

“…One strain of literature describes this phenomenon by looking at the amount of passive participants in a network, the so-called 'lurkers' (Nonnecke and Preece 1999). Lurkers may be perceived as freeloaders, who benefit from a network's knowledge and experience without giving anything in return (Dennen 2008;Preece, Nonnecke, and Andrews 2004).…”